The RoanokeSlant

This file is a personal journal of commentary of examples of the Roanoke Times and Liberal Media Slant...... lbhagen@aol.com .......The Google Cookie Notice is required by the EU! So much for US Sovereignty!

We all know that Ewell had issues during his four years as Sheriff. It is disgusting that the Roanoke Times would
dedicate a major article to these issues as part of “their self-serving obituary”
of him is beyond the pale.These were
primarily issues of omission and leadership shortfalls that did not involve
violations of his oath nor did they enrich Ewell in any way.

-

This is a time of reflections on a fine, kind, and good person
who served his community to the best of his ability.

Obama Avoids Mendenhall Glacier’s Lessons On “Natural” Global Warming

-

Roanoke Times, 8-31-2015, Pg 3: Obama To Anchorage Alaska:
Renames Mount McKinley, highest mountain peak in North America, back to original
name Denali.

-
Obama hypes the Alarmist chant of manmade global warming in Alaska while avoiding Juneau,
the capital of Alaska,
location of Mendenhall Glacier and it’s very visible scientific evidence and
data about “Natural” Global Warming!
-
The Mendenhall Glacier’s recorded history of retreat from near
Juneau, the capital of Alaska, up the valley to the current
visitor’s center is the irrefutable data that demonstrates “Natural” Global
Warming started in the 1700’s and was the cause of the end of the Little Ice
Age and the onset of Northern Hemisphere Glacial Retreat.
-
During the 200 years from 1750 to 1950, well before
significant increased atmospheric CO2, Mendenhall retreated two and one-half (2-1/2)
miles up Anka Street
without benefit of CO2, natural or manmade.
-
The Mendenhall Visitors Center’s Glacial Retreat map
overlaid with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s CO2 graphic is clear evidence
that the current hypothesis about manmade CO2 being the cause of glacial
retreat and global warming leaves much to be explained.
-

-

-

-
Detailed graphics of additional glacier retreats can be
viewed within a Slide Show at:http://roanokeslant.org/AGW-Skeptic2D/
-
Scientific Papers on The Mendenhall Glacier include:
Glacier Fluctuation for Six Centuries in Southeastern
Alaska and Its Relation to Solar Activityhttp://www.jstor.org/stable/211280?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
-
THE END OF THE LITTLE ICE AGE, MENDENHALL GLACIER, JUNEAU, ALASKAhttps://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2001CD/finalprogram/abstract_3405.htm
This article also explains why glacier melting and retreat, once
started, accelerates as additional heat-absorbing
materials are exposed to the atmosphere and sun without any assistance from
CO2.
-
-
The non-association between atmospheric CO2 and global
warming is also evident in the NASA global temperature data showing less than
one degree warming for past 250 years and showing insignificant warming during the
past 18 year period ofincreased
atmospheric CO2.
-
-

-

-

The great tragedy of
Science –
The slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

Sunday, August 30, 2015

Smith Mountain Lake Virginia In Mourning And Reflection

The people of SML are shocked and saddened by the wanton
killing ofRoanoke WDBJ7 employees, Alison
Parker, 24, and Adam
Ward, 27, and the wounding of Vicki
Gardner, 62, executive director of the Smith Mountain Lake Regional Chamber
of Commerce.

-

Our community has joined in expressing our condolences to
the families, friends and coworkers of the victims of this tragedy.

-
-
-Personal commentary: This tragedy was ultimately the result of misdirected
hostility, failed anger management, faulty employment political correctness and
undiagnosed mental illness all accumulating into the ill mind and hostile actions
of a mentally dysfunctional young man Vester Lee Flanagan II,aka Brice Williams.
-
-
“Vester Lee Flanagan was a popular teenager, a model for
Macy’s department store as a young man, and appeared to be a successful
reporter at local television news stations in California and across the American
south.But away from the studio lights,
his journalism career was troubled, marked by office disputes and legal complaints
he filed that alleged racism at newsrooms in Tallahassee,
Florida, in 2000 and in Virginia last year.”http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/26/vester-lee-flanagan-virginia-tv-news-shooter
Flanagan’s hostility also carried-over into his daily
experiences like driving.
Video shows Virginia
gunman Vester Lee Flanagan in July road rage incidenthttp://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/video-show-vester-lee-flanagan-road-rage-incident-article-1.2338610
--

The “faulty
employment political correctness” resulted in WDBJ7 management not getting a
valid picture of Flanagan’s issues from prior employers but instead they got
letters of recommendations.

One can presume that
prior employers were intimidated by Flanagan’s prior race and
sexual-orientation based complaints to the Federal EEOC and court lawsuits; it
was easier and “safer” to just pass him along to the next job.

Katrina New Orleans Plus Ten Years And Lessons Not Learned

-

Roanoke Times, 8-26-2015, Pg 3: New Plan: Let the water stay

-
Seems like everyone who is anyone beat a path to New Orleans for the 10
year Katrina anniversary.
All, including Obama, were touting the hundreds of millions
of taxpayer money spent on infrastructure and facilities and housing.
-
No one seemed to notice that Katrina was only a Cat-3 when
it hit and that future Cat-4’s and 5’s are sure to happen, so, why are we, the
taxpayers, “investing” in reclaiming properties like Ward-9 that lie below
sea-level?
-

Ward-9 was historically a swampland and should never have
been developed and redeveloping it now with taxpayer funds is clearly a form of
malfeasance.

People can and should be relocated to a better situation for
their health, welfare and future benefit, that is, if you really believe that:“All Lives Matter”!
-

Thursday, August 20, 2015

Obama Launches Yet Another Jihad Against Fracking

-

Roanoke Times, 8-19-2015, Agency aims to reduce
methane,The EPA announced a rule that
would limit the potent greenhouse gas, the energy industry opposes the plan.

-
-
Damn those Frackers!They’re producing massive amounts of oil and gas on private lands in
an amazing short amount of time and in direct contravention to Obama’s cell phone
and pen.Notice the word “potent” in the
headline – fits right in with flatulation a major source of potent methane and also CO2 every time we breathe out.
-

This Fracking is an abomination because it keeps the cost of
energy down making so-called “alternatives” astronomically expensive.

Bill Gates:
Renewable’s Cost Astronomical – Switch Green Subsidies To R&Dhttp://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2015/07/bill-gates-renewables-cost-astronomical.html
-The Good News:The Obama Jihad against fossil fuels
continues to face major obstacles:-
*There is no global
warming for the past 18 years from man or nature per NASA.
-*There is less than
one degree in warming over the past 250 years as we exit from The Little Ice
Age circa 1776 per NASA.This very
moderate natural-variation warming does not correlate to CO2 from man or
nature.
-

*There is no
scientific basis for predicting catastrophic climate change from consuming
fossil fuels and the so-called computer models are totally inconsistent with
the NASA temperature records.

-

*The Gore-Mann-AGW-hockey-stick
thermal run-away upon which the entire Inconvenient “Truth” was based has been
belied by Mother Nature – Inconveniently, there is no hockey-stick and
therefore the hypothesis is just “schtick”!

-

*The “alternative”
options are expensive, intermittent and unreliable and do not support utility
service at 24/7/365 availability.

-

*Tax-payers now know
that tax subsidies are the stilts upon which “alternative” sources are being
built, maintained and supported.

-

*In spite of Obama
and his Pravda Media, the majority of the public now understand that “consensus
by tax-grants is not science”, the temperature data does not support the
hypothesis and the proposed “alternatives” are not ready for prime time utility
systems.

Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Hillary Double Flushes Her Toilet Server

-

It now appears that Hillary’s Basement Server (that was used
for ALL the Emails for the US
Secretary of State for six years) was connected to an IP (Internet-provider)
that provided the interface to the www for her Basement Email service.

-All this would be super-funny if not for the damage to our national security and the exposure of our people to the dangers from our mortal enemies and the fact that the person responsible is the Democrat candidate for President.--

Based on years of history, going
back to the Ayatollah’s taking and holding our Embassy people as hostages, and
Iranian backing and support of Radical Muslim Terrorists, and being directly
responsible for over 500 American servicemen deaths, and pronouncing daily “Death to
America” --- Obama says they will now play nice and use the sequestered money for welfare!Really?

Then again Obama was
designated as “Liar of the Year”!

-

The Good News:The American People have finally wised-up to
Obama:

Fox News Poll: Majority
would reject Iran
nuke deal

The Iran nuclear
agreement goes to Congress in September. If it were up to American
voters, they would reject it -- with a large majority saying Iran wouldn’t
abide by the agreement anyway.

“The New York Fed's EmpireState general business
conditions index tumbled from 3.86 in July to -14.92 in August, its lowest
since April 2009.”

-

NY manufacturing has been on a steady slide since the
1980s under the leadership of one Democrat governor after another and then
sucker-punched by six years of Obama.Something about excessive taxes, anti-business regulations and high cost
of living in the so called “Empire” State.

-

Through it all Obama and his Pravda Media continue to
tell us how good things are thanks to Obama’s economic policies for the last
six-and-a-half years.

His disdain for
business, businesspersons and the free enterprise system was well articulated
right here at Roanoke
Fire House #1:

Roanoke Times, 8-15-2015, Pg 3:Clinton
may have been slow to secure classified emails found in May.

-Hillary Slow?Who
wrote this headline?Hillary’s press
secretary?And it’s not just the Emails found in May!And it’s not just the Top Secret Emails found by the IG!Her entire term as Secretary of State she used a
jerry-rigged Best Buy server located in the basement of her house for ALL her
official State Dept. Business that includes the most sensitive of the
administrations communications.-

-

-

-

Based on her hundreds of trips and self-proclaimed
involvement in every contentious international issue for the past 6 years,
clearly there were thousands of classified Emails passing into and out of her
Email system.-Under threat of a subpoena, Hillary relinquished her
thoroughly erased, scrubbed and bleached server.Talk about the destruction of evidence in a
criminal case!Wouldn't that be a felony if you or I did that?-